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Originally Posted by Radio Wrangler
Standards conversion and SECAM was a bit of a joke.
It turned out that SECAM was the very devil to mix and do the usual video tricks to because of the delays needed. So programmes were made in PAL and only at the last stage converted to SECAM for transmission.
Supreme Effort indeed!
David
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Yes I've heard the studio equipment had to be PAL or else covert the signal for mixing. Later one RGB equipment were used & SECAM was encoded down the line.
This was one reason most of the Eastern European countries using SECAM switched to PAL in the 1990s as the cost of buying new infrastructure was cheaper for PAL.
I presume SCART sockets were an early addition to French TVs to get round some issues with creating a SECAM output in early VCRs & home computers.